Physical Description

The manuscript is written in long lines with 23 lines to the page. Rubrics are in red and pen-flourished majuscules in red or blue. There are column headings.

Script

The manuscript is written in a Gothic Bookhand.

In the chapter on sorcery, the shade of the ink is lighter than the rest of the text and could therefore be a later addition.

Additions

Some marginal references are found. In the left margin of fol. 70v a profile of a man is found , and on fols 4v and 5v there are animals.

Binding

Bound in a parchment binding (an old sea chart) from the beginning of the eighteenth century (1700-1730) ; 222 mm x 160 mm x 33 mm. On the front fly-leaf Kristian Kålund has noted the date 14.08.1886.

History

Origin

The manuscript was written in Denmark. It has been dated c. 1400 by Kristian Kålund (Katalog vol. I p. 341). Later, Peter Skautrup dated the manuscript to c. 1350, except from the chapter on sorcery which he hesitatingly dates to the beginning of the fifteenth century (Skautrup 1933 p. xvi). However, all of the manuscript is now thought to date from as early as c. 1300 (Kroman 1943 p. 57).

Additional

Lent to The Danish National Archives (Rigsarkivet), Copenhagen, for the use of Erik Kroman1957-58, 1959 (twice), 1961 (twice), 1965 and 1967.

Lent to The State and University Library (Statsbiblioteket), Århus, for the use of Peter Skautrup1969-70.

Lent to The Provincial Archives of Northern Jutland (Landsarkivet for Nørrejylland), Viborg, November 1990 to August 1991, and later to The Royal Library (Det Kongelige Bibliotek), Copenhagen, August to December 1991 for the exhibition, 730-året for jydske lov (  The 730th Anniversary of the Provincial Law of Jutland).